The most horrific event in USA’s history since the bombing of Pearl Harbor in southern California (edit: ok really it’s in Hawaii – not SoCal – author suffered mild brain fart – apologises profusely!) almost seventy years ago was hands down the bombing of the Twin Towers almost ten years ago. While most of us weren’t witnesses to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, most everyone reading this will have been witness to the fall of the Twin Towers in NYC. Then we witnessed a White House Administration change all the rules of war and most of the rules of peace in a massive effort to find and capture the man responsible for the heinous crime against American civilians. And we let it happen. We gave in to fear and allowed mob rule to colour everything we knew to be true about humanity.

And as the years have tumbled by and the manhunt turned middle eastern war wore on, the changes we’d backed began to make less and less sense. And just as the term Weapons of Mass Destruction became the punchline for late night television humour, along comes a president who understood the importance of diplomacy, the relevance of patience and who could work for our country without always needing to grab a headline and pat himself on the back.

President Barack Obama accomplished in 19 short months what the Bush administration (and actually the Clinton Administration before him) could not do. He used his position as POTUS and his art of diplomacy to guide a team of loyal, patriotic, intelligent military experts to work with otherwise skeptic if not hostile foreign outlets to find, capture and kill the elusive Osama bin Laden.

So while Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are busily puffing their hairdos and beating their chests while publicly disrespecting and recruiting unpatriotic behaviour towards our seated president, the man was quietly and determinedly – just getting the job done.

Sarah Palin tweeted thanks to the soldiers who performed this miraculous task – but not one word of kindness or praise was extended to the Commander in Chief – the man who ultimately made the miracle happen. Then she logged onto Facebook and wrote:

A Grateful Nation

Americans tonight are united in celebration and gratitude. God bless all the brave men and women in our military and our intelligence services who contributed to carrying out the successful mission to bring Bin Laden to justice and who laid the groundwork over the years to make this victory possible. It’s a testament to the hard work and dedication of these brave Americans who relentlessly hunted down our enemy.

This is a victory for the American people, for the victims who were heartlessly murdered on September 11 and in Al Qaeda’s other numerous attacks, and for all the peace-loving people of the world.

“…who laid the groundwork over the years to make this happen…” Who would this be exactly? Seems to me a lot of work went into undoing the groundwork previously laid by the former Republican administration SO this could finally happen. And excuse me for being blunt but considering Sarah Palin had NOT ONE THING TO DO with this successful mission, her unsolicited praise seems feigned and fatuous. Oh and by the way – whoever actually wrote this Facebook rant seems to be unfamiliar with Arabic protocal. The name is bin Laden, not Bin Laden. Osama bin Laden. There’s actually a purpose for this. Look it up. No reason to be disrespectful to an entire nation just because this man deserved our contempt.

Dear Ex-half Governor Sarah Palin

You have the manners of a pig. Your tweet commending the soldiers and not their commanding officer made you look small. The fact you felt the need to write a follow-up in Facebook only served to make you look even smaller and just a bit pompous. But most of all, Ms. Quitter from Alaska, your continual inability to form the words “Good Job Mr. President” is ultimately going to keep you from the White House. You betcha!

Excellent post…I thought when I watched the President at the WHC dinner that he was exceptionally relaxed…he normally kind of smirks at his own jokes and he had perfect delivery the other night. I’m certain now that he was just waiting for the next day so he could drive the final nail into the GOP coffin. The wannabes (except the drama queen and probably her shadow, Bachmann) now have nothing to run on except the economy. Birth certificate? Check. bin Laden? Dead. So they are left with what they SAID they were running on in 2010…jobs. They haven’t done any better with that than they did in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008. Welcome to the real world Sarah. Bye bye now.

My oh my sarah savage…you just don’t get it, do you? We don’t give a crap about your assinine tweets or opinions or anything else for that matter. The President of our great country is so far above your sarcastic, venemous attacks. You are not loved and respected like he is because you are a domestic terrorist in my opinion. You have attacked what a huge number of Americans stand for and your relentless attacks on our Commander in Chief are a slap in the face to those who voted for him. You seem to forget that we sent you back to Alaska and like you even less now. Show respect for our President or go screw yourself you nasty tart. And stfu cause we’re all sick of you and your trailer trash family. Including your babymaker with the cosmetic surgery addiction.

Thank you all for the kind comments. I just want to add that I was initially taken aback by the celebrations. This was a death after all. Someone’s son. And even though he didn’t show a bit of compassion for other people and hads caused such grief in the world, doesn’t give us a moral pass to be like him.

Still, the countries reaction is understandable considering the depth of loss and change he imposed on us. I only wish we could show this much solidarity under happier circumstances.

I’m just shocked that she didn’t claim she was responsible for his capture. I am sure she could manufacture a picture of her killing him;)

She is PATHETIC! My husband and I have a bet on how long it will take the republicans to start complaining how President Obama handled it, etc. You know – they shouldn’t have killed him, they should have done this and not that. I am sure they can come up with a million things. Makes me ill.

Fine post, fine President, fine military. And then there’s this stain in our midst. You are so right: she has the manners of a pig. She might as well have given another “blood libel” speech, as the comments she’s offered now are as completely ill-judged. She’s shrinking before our eyes like the wicked witch.

I would say, this afternoon, this evening, or, the latest tomorrow, republicans will be saying that we are more in danger than ever before and it will be President Obama’s fault. It makes me ill also. However, know that they are fried. Can they ever say again that President Obama is soft on terror? It must make them livid that our President is a man who is cool under pressure. I know who I want to be answering the phone at the WH at 3:00AM and it isn’t Palin or any of her ilk.

What makes Palin’s response to bin Laden’s death look even more immature is the fact that in their statements, both Bush and Cheney congratulated President Obama in addition to the security and intelligence teams and the military. I cannot stand either one of these men, but at least, they know proper protocol in situations like these. Palin has had the nerve to say repeatedly that President Obama is the main reason the country is divided, but I guess she misses the real cause of the problem when she looks into the mirror each morning to fix her make up. You can take the pig out of the country, but the pig will always be a pig. Palin moved beyond Alaska, but she’s the same classless, mean, petty, psychopathic individual she has always been. What haunts her deep in her soul is her acknowledgment, in her quietest moments, that President Obama is a better person than she is in every way.

I’m with you in spirit, but have to say I disagree. SP’s failure to utter those four words, or any other short expression demanded by common decency (how about,”I’m sorry I lied”?) will not be remembered as having kept her out of the White House. Assuming that ten years from now anyone cares, what will be remembered are all of the egregiously ignorant and stupid things she actually said.
Kevin

GWBush and admin deserve no revisionist credit for hunting down OBL and bringing closure to the thousands of friends and relatives who lost loved ones on 9/11 to a crazed mass murderer. He and Cheney were instead focused on finding “weapons of mass convenience”.